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Robert Calasso's aim is to make us understand the necessity of myth, not just as fable and fantasy but as a way of comprehending our own nature.
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"A dynamic encounter between modernity and the oldest stories known to Europe." (Robin Blake The Independent)
"I have no idea whether or not Roberto Calasso is a 'genius' but I do know that The Marriage Of Cadmus and Harmony is a perfect work like no other" (Gore Vidal)
"It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness" (Simon Schama)
"A masterpiece...a wonderfully fashioned work of art" (John Banville Irish Times)
"A brilliant and profound narration" (A. S. Byatt The Times)
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"I have no idea whether or not Roberto Calasso is a 'genius' but I do know that The Marriage Of Cadmus and Harmony is a perfect work like no other" (Gore Vidal)
"It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness" (Simon Schama)
"A masterpiece...a wonderfully fashioned work of art" (John Banville Irish Times)
"A brilliant and profound narration" (A. S. Byatt The Times)
The most interesting book to come out of Italy since Umberto Eco's THE NAME OF THE ROSE
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0224042602
- ISBN 13 9780224042604
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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